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The book opens with Yeats, who was hailed by Eliot as "the greatest contemporary poet". This book opens the door to the classics of Western poetry for readers. The author has selected 21 important poets in the history of modern Western poetry: from Rimbaud, the originator of surrealist poetry, to Amy Lowell, the representative poet of Imagism; from Frost, the poet laureate who abides by meter, to Whitman, who created "free form"; from Eluard, a modernist poet who pursued freedom all his life, to Mrs. Browning, who wrote all innocence and love in sonnets... These 21 poetic stories are about love and loss, about ideals and freedom. The fate of the poet blends with the mood of the critic, reproducing the charm of these poems that have been washed by time.

Poetry can extend the road to any place in the world, including the universe and the soul; any road in the world will eventually lead to poetry, even if this road is completely different from poetry at the beginning. Regarding poetry, people's aesthetic standards are not static. Old anthologies of Tang poetry may not be suitable for the current era. "Three Hundred Tang Poems" was an elementary school reading book in the Qing Dynasty, and "Selected Tang Poems" was an anthology decades ago, with the unique imprint of the times. This book "The Aestheticism of Tang Poetry" selects some poems with aestheticistic tendencies in style, which are the most beautiful works in Tang poetry.

This book is the second volume of "The Time Book of Poetry", taking readers through the magical gallery of Western poetry classics. Beginning with Sappho, the world's first poet who sang about personal love, the author selects 12 great poets in the history of Western poetry: from Shelley, the representative of romanticism and the "poet among poets", to Pushkin, the father of Russian literature; from Ding, the poet laureate of aestheticism Nissen, to the pioneer of Symbolism, Edgar Allan Poe; from the ancient Greek tragedy master Euripides, to the poet Prudhomme who wrote about the loneliness of modern people... 12 Heart-wrenching poetic stories depict an extremely splendid picture of life, and also reveal the original loneliness of human nature. The book contains nearly a hundred famous Western paintings, which together with the moving poems, merge into a miniature version of the history of Western art. The poems and paintings are accompanied by magnificent and splendid works, which fully demonstrate the loftiness and magnificence of the Western art classics.

Nalan Rongruo, a man named DI in the early Qing Dynasty, was the son of a great scholar. He was gifted and intelligent, well versed in classics and history, good at calligraphy and painting, and good at riding and shooting. A Jinshi in the Kangxi Dynasty and a first-class bodyguard. He died of cold illness at the age of thirty-one. There are "Zi Mao Ji", "Ding Shui Ci" and "Tongzhitang Ji" handed down from generation to generation. Nalan's poems are "clear and graceful, with a strong sense of sadness, high and far-reaching style, unique and direct to the heart", and were praised by Wang Guowei as "only one person since the Northern Song Dynasty". Every family is singing the drinking song, how often does Nalan know what is on his mind? Nalan is a young nobleman who attracts the attention of the world, and he is also an astonishing and unparalleled talent. He is the most intimate friend of the literati, and he is also a heartbroken person through the ages. The legend of Nalan is only hidden in Nalan's poems. If life were just like the first time we met... A letter of "Magnolia Flower Order" was sent to the capital and Jiangnan, starting a poetic ten-act play, describing Nalan's short but gorgeous life in detail. The author's profound interpretation of the changes in Nalan's era and the destiny of genius, as well as his exquisite interpretation of classical culture and poetic aesthetics, are like the bright pearls and jade scattered throughout the article, which make people think and sigh. The book quotes more than a hundred of Nalan's poems, and the author is like Nalan's confidant across generations. He filters out misunderstandings and misinterpretations with sophisticated textual research, and takes us to each poetic scene with in-depth understanding to meet the real Nalan Rongruo...